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Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...education: from therapeutic practice to hopeful transgressive learning’,. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 21, pp. 41–56. Ojala, M., Cunsolo, A., Ogunbode, C.A. and Middleton, J. (2021) ‘Anxiety, worry, and grief in a time of environmental and climate crisis: a narrative review’, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 46(1), pp. 35–58. Available...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
IT: Information
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: Information

...education in the UK is monitored by the QAA: Quality Assurance Authority for Higher Education. It must also not be forgotten that when the course is in presentation large numbers of Associate Lecturers and students read the material and provide feedback if they identify problems...IT: Information: 6.2 Authority and the variety of information sources - Technology has...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Understanding water quality
Nature & Environment

Understanding water quality

...educational achievement, wildlife and economic prosperity. The indicators provide an overview of national progress towards a more sustainable economy, society and environment. The SDIs are used as a means of assessing whether the nation as a whole is developing sustainably, and as a means for policy-makers to identify more sustainable policy options (DEFRA, 2013). River...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...educated delinquents) and council estates (Fergusson and Muncie, 2008). Council estates have also featured as convenient backdrops of social disorganisation in popular fiction and journalism, in travelogues, and as a source of political commentary and policy debate. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, for instance, it was the council estate which was marked out by the New...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
The use of force in international law
Society, Politics & Law

The use of force in international law

...educate them on the law of armed conflict. Narrator: Ignorance of humanitarian law is something that must be fought. If people don’t even know the rules they’re supposed to obey, compliance with the law is impossible. Speaker 3: These rules are taken from international conventions that your own country has signed. Everybody has a right to be cared for when he or she...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introducing ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing ageing

...education. Second Age – younger and middle-aged adulthood, while people are generally working and raising families. Third Age – after people have generally stopped working and any children have left home. Fourth Age – once people are frail and dependent. Reading 1 - (c) c.If people in the Third Age are healthy and active, how is the Third Age different from the...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...education programmes struggle to overcome basic lack of knowledge about vaccination, especially in communities where literacy rates are low and poverty is a daily fact of life. A survey of over 27 000 children in 24 African countries concluded that poor parental education and lack of access to information were critical factors in areas of low vaccine coverage. Only 71% of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Astronomy with an online telescope Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy with an online telescope

...educational wellbeing of the community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. Completing a course will require about 24 hours of study time. However, you can study the course at any time and at a pace to suit you. Badged courses are available on The Open University’s OpenLearn website and do not cost anything...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs